# Movies with the best atmospheres **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144 "2018-10-18T14:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/41 "2018-10-21T14:53:10Z")
I just bumped into the movie The Revenant last night - to re-cap - “A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.” Dam if they didn’t do a fine job of showing what cold is like. All of it was shot in natural light, in Canada, the United States, and Argentina. Didn’t see any fake snow (though the movie was mostly playing in the background as I was cooking). It caught me because I had just spent three hours putting the plow and chains on my truck. I was well suited up in NorthFace gear. I can’t imagine what it was like in the snow nearly 200 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/42 "2018-10-21T16:27:26Z")
A lot of early 30s German cinema had great atmosphere. My favorite from that group would be _The Blue Angel_. I can’t take my eyes off the sad clown in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/43 "2018-10-21T17:20:58Z")
[_Beyond The Black Rainbow_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1534085/) sets the mood better than any other film I’ve seen since Aranofsky’s _Pi_ and/or Skjoldbjærg’s original 1997 _Insomnia_. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/44 "2018-10-21T17:49:08Z")
“D.O.A.” (1949) is great at projecting a dark and menacing noir atmosphere (when you’re not laughing at the hilariously over-the-top depiction of beat subculture in a jazz nightclub). “I want to report a murder.”… “Who was murdered?” “I was.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/45 "2018-10-21T18:43:22Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > That reminds me of _ **Lost in Translation** _, where that feeling of being tired, jet-lagged, and isolated in a strange foreign culture is sustained for the entire movie. Interesting; I would’ve written: > [@hypothetical Bo](#): > > That reminds me of _ **Lost in Translation** _, where that feeling of being pointlessly bored, yawning, and occasionally giving a disinterested glance at a similar-but-different foreign culture is both sustained for and apparently the point of the entire movie. 😃 I’m not a fan of the film. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/46 "2018-10-21T19:57:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m not a fan of the film. > > 🙂 You mean to say that people can actually have different tastes in movies?  😟 But you seem to be in a minority with _Lost in Translation_. Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 95% (critics) and 85% (audience). And it even managed to win [an award or two](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/awards). 🏆 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/47 "2018-10-21T20:25:37Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > You mean to say that people can actually have different tastes in movies?  😟 > > But you seem to be in a minority with _Lost in Translation_. Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 95% (critics) and 85% (audience). > > And it even managed to win [an award or two](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/awards). 🏆 I didn’t mean to start a pissing match; I was just offering a comedically contrasting opinion in order to possibly elicit a few chuckles from our fellow Dopers. The fact that lots of people like the movie doesn’t sway my opinion; lots of people are often wrong. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/48 "2018-10-22T05:21:05Z")
> [@Plumpudding](#): > > Stalker, by Andrei Tarkovsky. You need to read “Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room” by Geoff Dyer ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/49 "2018-10-22T05:26:51Z")
Spaceballs, of course. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Lz0xULQIaSU/hqdefault.jpg "Fresh air") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0xULQIaSU) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/50 "2018-10-22T07:54:36Z")
Unforgiven - [Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/videoplayer/vi3445406489?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1) trailer. Stark prairie, clothes, dirt, buildings. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144/51 "2018-10-23T15:01:56Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > The Fifth Element is much better to watch without sound because it looks amazing. Absolutely. Also Valerian to a lesser extent. I also thought Zodiac was very creepy atmospheric, it really felt like the 1970s with a serial killer on the loose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-best-atmospheres/823144.md?page=2)